Overview

The meeting was held at AAFC office in Regina, on March 26, 2019. There were 12 people in attendance and 4 others participated by phone/internet. 

• Meeting agenda and attendees

Two initial presentations were given to provide an overview of GWF and our project:

• GWF Overview (Chris DeBeer)
• Climate Extremes Project Overview (Francis Zwiers)

A presentation on ways to increase the research impact was also given:

• Ensuring Research Impact: Precipitation Extremes Project Knowledge mobilization (Stephanie Merrill)

Updates

Updates on scientific progress were made by several of our partners and researchers:

Partners

• AAFC-Climate extremes related activities (Allan Howard)
• CCME (Elaine Wheaton) 
• CatIQ (Laura Twidle)

Researchers

• Model Evaluation During the 1999- 2004 Canadian Prairie Drought-Drought evolution (George Liu)
• Precipitation types and events impacting NB Power infrastructure (Julie Thériault)
• Climate-Related Precipitation Extremes and related work (Francis Zwiers)
• WRF PGW Simulations of Prairie Future Hail and Severe Weather Environment (John Hanesiak) 
• Convection-permitting climate model research updates (Lintao Li)
• Freezing precipitation events impacting Manitoba (Brock Tropea)
• Convection Permitting 4-km WRF Western Canada Simulation (Zhenhua Li)

Discussion and Actions

The work plan for the third year, as well as some issues identified for discussion, has been presented:

• Project work plan (Dhouha Ouali)